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May 15, 2015

Israel downplays media flurry over Vatican agreement with Palestine

Pope Francis greets Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas as Israeli President Shimon Peres looks on during an invocation for peace in the Vatican Gardens June 8, 2014.

JERUSALEM - Israel is downplaying the recent media flurry over reports the Vatican and Palestinian representatives have finalized the text of a formal agreement recognizing freedom of religion in the "State of Palestine" and outlining the rights and obligations of the Catholic Church, its agencies and its personnel in the territory.

Published in International
July 9, 2013

In Timbuktu, majority Muslims, minority Christians reject extremists

Girls walk a street in Timbuktu, northern Mali, in June. The city was seized by Islamist fighters in 2012 and then liberated by French and Malian soldiers early this year. During the jihadists' rule, girls and women could not appear in public unless they were completely covered. Return to the north by hundreds of thousands of refugees and displaced people has been slow. Many were waiting for improved security in the north before venturing back home.

TIMBUKTU, Mali - In this ancient city that has become synonymous with the ends of the earth, the recent terrorism of Islamist extremists belies long years of peaceful Muslim-Christian coexistence.

Published in International